Just pretend for a moment you haven’t heard this story a hundred times before. Four outcast kids meet in high school. They discover that they all love Sabbath, Kiss, Zeppelin, Hendrix, Slayer and Soundgarden. Much to their surprise they also discover that two of them play guitar, one plays drums and the last one plays bass. So they form a band. They freak out in their parent's basements and they fall madly in love with ROCK! This is usually the point where you’d turn the page, throw the disc in the trash, or politely excuse yourself and make a b line for the bar. Usually you’d be right but that’s not the case with Red Giant. Somehow these misfit kids managed to avoid the usual local band pitfalls and forge a sound as menacing as it is spacey and as anthemic as it is crushing. Red Giant is the true result of musical hero worship gone wrong, but it just feels right.

The boys, Damien (lead guitar), Brian (bass), Andy (drums) and Alex (singer), are Clevelanders. Which for once is to their advantage, because you need a vibrant imagination to withstand Cleveland. Red Giant parleyed said imagination into becoming a mainstay at Cleveland’s legendary punk/underground club, the Euclid tavern, sharing the stage with the likes of Fu Manchu, Queens of the Stone Age, The Atomic Bitchwax and Nebula. Their debut album came out on the local indie label, Cambodia Records, home to the cities finest array of local talent (Keelhaul, Craw, Disengage). This in turn piqued the interest of TeePee Records who released the space-rock epic "Ultra Magnetic Glowing Sound". Heavy and sonically colorful, the disk met with rave reviews and garnered the boys a devoted following outside of Cleveland. Having contributed a track to “Right in the Nuts: A Tribute to Aerosmith” Small Stone seemed like the perfect home for Red Giant’s particular blend of 70’s influenced, heavy, spaced-out rock & roll and thus the boys jumped ship once more and signed with the Stone in the fall of 2003.

Their Small Stone debut, "Devil Child Blues" is in the can and set for the masses. It's an earthy ride this time. More straight forward heavy rock, passionate and bluesy. Epic lead guitars and whiskey drenched vocals fly above that hard pounding rhythm that drives the march of the mighty riff. It’s a true sign that a local band (even one from Cleveland) can rise above their surroundings and pull themselves out of the traps that catch so many other local, regional, and even national acts fall prey to. Not bad for a couple of kids from the Midwest that started like any other accident waiting to happen; rocking out in their parent’s basement. Catch them in a real club on this next tour (Fall/Winter/Spring) and see what we mean.